This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fairbairn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QdV.2ACIB/122 Message Board Post: FAIRBAIRN, John. Kirkliston. Covenanter. Prisoner in Edinburgh Tolbooth. Transported from Leith on the "St. Michael of Scarborough" 12 December 1678.. (PC) I am not related to this person, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled "Scots Banished to the American Plantations 1650-1775" by David Dobson. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore. 1983. pg. 45. Joyce